Milk-strainer.



PATAENTED OCT. 2, 1906.

G. W. HART. MILK STRANER.

APPLIOATION FILM) ma. 22. 1905.

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GEORGE w. HART, or RosEDALE, KANSAS.

MILK-STRAINER.

Patented Get. 2, 1906.

T0 all whom, it Trl/my concern.' .i

Be it known that L, GEORGE W. HART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rosedale, in the county of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Milk-Straincrs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the saine.

My invention relates to improvements in'.

milk-strainers.

It has for its object to provide a device of this nature which is simple in construction, cheap of manufacture, efficient, and sanitary.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereconstruction shown and described herein as the scope of the claims hereto appended will permit. I Referring more particularly to the drawings, the body or 'casing of the strainer comis tray-like in' orm, with a\vertical sidefnallg:l

prises a tubular lower portion 1 and a flared cap-sha ed portion 2, preferably made integral wit said lower portion. The lower end of the tubular portion 1 is formed with the screw-threads 3 to receive a correspondingly screw-threaded cap 4. O enings 5 are provided in thevjwalls of sai tubular portion, said openingsbein covered with straining material 6, secure to the inner surface of said tubular portion. The casing is fitted with two removable strainers, an upper one 7 fitting in the u per end of the portion 2, and a lower and snia 1er one 8, fitting into the up per end of the tubular portion at its juncture4 with the flared ortion 2. Said lower stiain'erv 9, having a beveled flange 10 at its edge to engage the shoulder atghe juncture: between the two portions'of th strainer, through said lower strainer into the 5 lower tubular portion of the casin and out through the openings 5 in the wa ls of said tubular portion after having been strained' three times; ,The relative size of the meshesof the several strainers may be regulated to suit requirements.' The cap 4 is adapted to receive the settlingsor dirt and may be detached for the purpose of cleaning. As both of the tray-strainers are also removable, all

parts of the device may be readily cleaned.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim' as new, and desire to secure by 'Letters Patent, is-fy 1. A device of the character described, comprising a casing having a lower tubular portion and an lupper c'u -shaped portion," said tubular ortion provi ed with openings in its side wa ls covered with straining mate-v rial and having its lower end closed, and a removable strainer comprising a vertical wall portion fitting into the tubular portion of the an extended integral threaded portion, a re-r -movable ca engaging said threaded portion, a removab e strainer comprising a vertical wall portion fitting into the tubular portion Vof the casing and having straining material at its. lower end and a flan e at its upper end engaging the shoulder at t e juncture of the upper and lower portions of the casing, and a strainer arranged at the upper end of the cu -shaped portion.

. n testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. HART.

J. G. PERRY, F. B. MCCALL.

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